11 Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me. 12 I am sending him back to you—I am sending my very own heart.[a][b] 13 I wanted to keep him with me, so that in my imprisonment for the gospel he might serve me in your place.

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Footnotes

  1. 12 Other mss read him back. Receive him, my own heart.
  2. 12 Lit you—that is, my own heart

11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

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